# ἀξιόω
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

From ἄξιος (áxios, “worthy”) +‎ -όω (-óō, factitive verb–forming suffix).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ak.si.ó.ɔː/ → /ak.siˈo.o/ → /ak.siˈo.o/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /ak.si.ó.ɔː/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /ak.siˈo.o/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ak.siˈo.o/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /ak.siˈo.o/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ak.siˈo.o/

### Verb

ᾰ̓ξῐόω • (ăxĭóō) (Attic, Ionic)
* to think or deem worthy
** (transitive) to think [with accusative ‘someone’] worthy, either in a good or bad sense [with genitive ‘of something’]
*** 431 BCE, Euripides, Medea 962
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 3.2.7
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.145
*** 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Apology 38A
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 9.111
*** 424 BCE, Euripides, Hecuba 366
*** 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, Collected Works 122.23
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 103E
*** (transitive) to esteem, honor
**** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 1114
**** 430 BCE, Euripides, Herakles' Children 918
**** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 903
**** 408 BCE, Euripides, Orestes 1210
*** (intransitive) to value at a certain price
**** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 917D
** (transitive) to think [with accusative ‘someone’] worthy [with infinitive ‘to do or be’]
*** 438 BCE, Euripides, Alcestis 572
*** 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 182
*** 5th century BC, Pherecrates, Good-For-Nothings 7
*** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 10.73
*** 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 240
*** 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 161D
*** (transitive) to think fit, expect, require, demand that; compare Latin postulō
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.162
**** 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, Collected Works 118.20
**** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.89
**** 440 BCE – 390 BCE, Andocides, Collected Works 18.36
** (intransitive) to think one has a right [with infinitive ‘to do’]
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.42
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.15
*** 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Collected Works 164.32
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.86
*** (intransitive) to think fit, expect, consent, resolve, deign, dare [with infinitive ‘to do’]
**** 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 944
**** 472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 335
**** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1661
**** 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Hippias Minor 364D
**** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes 547.9:οἶμαι πάντας...φέρειν ἀξιοῦνoîmai pántas...phérein axioûn
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.20
**** 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 215
**** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.102
**** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Oeconomicus 21.4
**** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.66
**** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 370
**** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 425
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.199
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.!6
*** (transitive) to think, deem, hold
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.87
**** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.54
** (intransitive, transitive) to make a claim
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.58
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 3.17.6
*** 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, Histories 39.1.7
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 3.11
*** to hold an opinion
**** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes 312.6:ἐγὼ μὲν οὖν οὑτωσὶ περὶ τῆς τύχης ἀξιῶegṑ mèn oûn houtōsì perì tês túkhēs axiô
**** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes 460.28:ἐγὼ μὲν οὐκ ἀξιῶegṑ mèn ouk axiô
*** (philosophy) to lay down, hold, maintain
**** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Prior Analytics 1.17.5
**** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Prior Analytics 1.24.2
**** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.43

#### Derived terms

* ἀξίωμα (axíōma)
* ἀξίωσις (axíōsis)
* ἀξιωτέον (axiōtéon)
* ἀπαξιόω (apaxióō)

### References

* “ἀξιόω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “ἀξιόω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “ἀξιόω”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
* G515 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible